FL-HQ
Laboratory & Precision Casting Furnace
Bench and floor-standing furnaces from 1 kg to 100 kg with fast heat-up and tight temperature control, for R&D, dental, jewellery and investment casting.
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Industry Application
Laboratory Induction and Vacuum Furnaces for Research and Alloy Development
Small-scale melting, sintering and vacuum equipment with programmable recipes and data logging, for universities, research institutes and alloy development labs.
A laboratory furnace is bought for control and repeatability, not throughput. A result that cannot be reproduced next month is not a result, so the recipe, the atmosphere and the data record matter more than the melting rate.
Our laboratory range holds temperature to ±3 °C on programmable multi-segment recipes with full data logging, in air, argon or vacuum. Scale-up paths to production equipment share the same control platform, so a process proven in the lab transfers without re-learning the machine.
What This Industry Has to Solve
The three problems that decide whether an installation in this industry pays for itself or becomes a maintenance liability.
01
Reproducibility between runs
Stored multi-segment recipes and per-run data logging make an experiment repeatable by a different operator months later, which is the basic requirement for publishable or transferable work.
02
Reactive and exotic alloys
Argon purge chambers and full vacuum induction melting handle titanium, rare earths and reactive intermetallics that cannot be melted in air.
03
Scaling a lab process to production
The laboratory and production ranges share a control platform and recipe structure, so scale-up is a matter of geometry and power rather than a new process development exercise.
Recommended Equipment
The configurations we most often specify for research & laboratory operations.
FL-VIM
Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace
Melting and casting under vacuum or inert atmosphere from 5 kg to 2 tons, for nickel superalloys, titanium alloys, magnetic alloys and clean specialty steels.
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FL-VSF
Vacuum Sintering Furnace
Programmable vacuum and partial-pressure sintering to 2,200 °C with a uniform hot zone, for tungsten carbide, ceramics and PM components.
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Read MoreTell us what you melt.
Send your alloy, target output per hour, working hours and grid voltage. You will get a capacity recommendation, a plant layout and a firm quotation — normally within three working days, no obligation.